The Inhabit conference hits all the right spots for me. Imagination, Neighbourhood, Mission, Collaboration, Church, Redemption, Beauty – it’s all on the table and I’m looking forward to the feast. This confluence of ideas and practitioners is what the Church…continue reading

  On Monday, over 80 church leaders in the Lower Mainland met in Abbotsford for a day with theologian and church planter Stuart Murray Williams. Leading a conversation on church planting and discipleship in post-Christendom, Stuart challenged the group to…continue reading

Check this out.  Our good friends over at Parish Collective have created a tool to connect with other missionally minded and neighbourhood loving folks.  Here’s their dream: Imagine if you could easily discover all the people of faith who care…continue reading

aXiom – Finding Hope for the Canadian Church in a Changing Context aXiom was created to help leaders from churches and neighbourhoods find a path towards hope for the church in a changing context. The church has been marginalized in…continue reading

In Introducing the Missional Church Roxburgh and Boren describe the early stages in shifting a church culture as “experimenting into change.” They warn first of risk aversion. What shapes a risk averse culture? some of the theologies of conversion push…continue reading

I was looking at a diagram for the rhythm of missional community the other day, the old sodalic/modalic rhythm. It hit me that this was really an ontology – it was a reflection of the inner life of the Trinity.…continue reading